Not counting the Thunder (Who I'm not sure you could considering the short time since their inception), the Bulls as you can see are the only team who have NEVER changed their logo... It's been that way since day one. There is something cool about that to me. Especially when you look and consider how many teams are quick to change the smallest details.
HAHAHA, THAT IS HILARIOUS! What were they thinking with this one too? Talk about colors clashing... I like their original clover logo, and don't care for any of the rest of them.
I feel like a recognizable cityscape is crucial to pulling it off. When I look at Denvers I think "Are there actually any buildings in Denver that those represent?" Certainly not Denvers fault they don't have the Space Needle or the Golden Gate bridge though.
Is the OHSU tram recognizable enough? Obviously it's not anywhere near the Golden Gate Bridge or the Space Needle in terms of popularity..
HA! No! But we've got a good city for a cityscape. Here's an example of what I think would fit well if we were to use a cityscape in our logo. If you do a google image search for "Portland Cityscape Vector" you should see a few different versions of them. For me it's a combination of 3 main components - Mount hood, the bridges, and the Koin Tower. I feel like if you have those 3 things you have done an adequate job of representing the city. You could probably even break it down to just 2 - Mount Hood and the Bridges.
PLEASE!!! There is no apostrophe in logos. The apostrophe has two, and only two, uses: To show possession (the woman’s car is in the garage, the boy's bicycle was stolen, the President's husband was once President himself) and to indicate the omission of letters or numbers (don’t forget to vote, it's raining). Do not use an apostrophe in the possessive pronouns whose, ours, yours, his, hers, its, or theirs. Do not use an apostrophe in nouns that are plural but not possessive, such as CDs, 1960s, or logos. Yours truly, The Apostrophe Posse P.S. I like Spurs logo.
I miss this one: It's kinda weird, and I kinda liked those old Denver teams with Fat Lever, Alex English and Michael Adams.
The first two "Royals" logos are fine, but the two lion-based logos are awful. The first looks like it should be a college logo, and has shades of 90s-era design (which is always awful). The second is just a bad riff on medieval lion iconography - and I wanna call "double dribble" on it. It's possible to make the medieval logo work, but it needs to be entirely redrawn from the ground up - even the basketball is awful.
This is the one that I think works better today, than it did when it was originally put in use. But, as discussed earlier, the skyline just looks like any generic skyline - nothing about it says "Denver". That could be because Denver doesn't have a unique skyline. It's also too busy - I think keeping the color blocks in the sky above the mountains, but filling in the buildings with a single color might strengthen it...but then it risks becoming boring. It took a little searching, but I managed to find a shot of DT Denver with buildings that could make the skyline less "tetris" looking:
You shouldn't think of it as an attempt to replicate the skyline, but as an ode to the city's nickname "The Mile High City"
